This chapter gives a new, comprehensive interpretation of Gregory's Christology, focusing on his account of creation, the fall, and final redemption; his seminal doctrine of divinization (theosis); ...
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This chapter gives a new, comprehensive interpretation of Gregory's Christology, focusing on his account of creation, the fall, and final redemption; his seminal doctrine of divinization (theosis); the relationship between soteriology and Christology; the singular identity of Christ as “one and the same” God and Son; the unity of Christ, against longstanding dualistic interpretations of Gregory's Christology; the principles of Christological exegesis; Gregory's vivid sense of the divine suffering in Christ and the centrality of Christ's crucifixion and resurrection; the predominance and unifying effect of Christ's divinity on his humanity; and Gregory's Christological spirituality, whereby the doctrine of Christ is itself the means of the Christian's ascent to God. Attention is also given to Gregory's opposition to the Antiochene Christology of Diodore, in addition to as that of Eunomius and Apollinarius.Less

Jesus Christ, the Son of God

Gregory A. Beeley

Published in print: 2008-07-03

This chapter gives a new, comprehensive interpretation of Gregory's Christology, focusing on his account of creation, the fall, and final redemption; his seminal doctrine of divinization (theosis); the relationship between soteriology and Christology; the singular identity of Christ as “one and the same” God and Son; the unity of Christ, against longstanding dualistic interpretations of Gregory's Christology; the principles of Christological exegesis; Gregory's vivid sense of the divine suffering in Christ and the centrality of Christ's crucifixion and resurrection; the predominance and unifying effect of Christ's divinity on his humanity; and Gregory's Christological spirituality, whereby the doctrine of Christ is itself the means of the Christian's ascent to God. Attention is also given to Gregory's opposition to the Antiochene Christology of Diodore, in addition to as that of Eunomius and Apollinarius.

For most of the nineteenth century Unitarianism served as a kind of halfway house for those who found themselves no longer able to accept orthodox Christian belief and who did not as yet wish to pass ...
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For most of the nineteenth century Unitarianism served as a kind of halfway house for those who found themselves no longer able to accept orthodox Christian belief and who did not as yet wish to pass entirely into agnosticism. Its radical tradition and theological liberalism meant that many of the questions that agitated churchmen and dissenters alike in the course of the century had already been openly debated and discussed within Unitarianism in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The central feature of Unitarian theology was the denial of the Divinity of Christ coupled with an affirmation of the Unity of God, a doctrine which Unitarians thought was imperilled by both traditional Trinitarianism and theories of the Atonement which apparently opposed Christ to the Father. The discussion examines the influence of Joseph Priestley, David Hartley, and F. W. Newman, early Unitarian controversies, and new directions in Unitarianism.Less

The Contribution of the Unitarians

Geoffrey Rowell

Published in print: 1974-05-23

For most of the nineteenth century Unitarianism served as a kind of halfway house for those who found themselves no longer able to accept orthodox Christian belief and who did not as yet wish to pass entirely into agnosticism. Its radical tradition and theological liberalism meant that many of the questions that agitated churchmen and dissenters alike in the course of the century had already been openly debated and discussed within Unitarianism in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The central feature of Unitarian theology was the denial of the Divinity of Christ coupled with an affirmation of the Unity of God, a doctrine which Unitarians thought was imperilled by both traditional Trinitarianism and theories of the Atonement which apparently opposed Christ to the Father. The discussion examines the influence of Joseph Priestley, David Hartley, and F. W. Newman, early Unitarian controversies, and new directions in Unitarianism.